POLICE PROFITEERING?

Re "A letter to the president" (From This Corner, by Jeff vonKaenel, Oct. 13):

Law enforcement has a massive lobby and currently receives massive
federal funding to eradicate marijuana due to older policies that are
still in place. Getting the go-ahead to raid legal dispensaries and
gardens lets them add thousands to their annual budgets, and if
property and cash are seized the agency doing the raid gets to keep
it for their department.

I would dare to say that the recent turn of events would be a way for
Obama to gain support from this uber-strong law-enforcement lobby. Is
there a correlation between this law enforcement profiteering and the
raiding of legal, safe cannabis operations? It seems so to me.

Rigzin Vassallo

Sebastopol